Team members must repeatedly enter the desert, often for several days or even weeks at a time. They usually invite ...

For millennia, the Taklamakan Desert environment preserved more than ... samples of the 3,500-year-old cheese that bedecked the mummies’ necks. An analysis of proteins in those bits revealed ...

Among the most well-preserved are the Tarim mummies of Xinjiang, China, who were buried in boat-shaped coffins up to 4,000 years ago in the Taklamakan Desert. For a handful unfortunate Iranian ...

These mummies seem to suggest ... combs and a feather. The Taklamakan desert has given up hundreds of desiccated corpses in the past 25 years, and archaeologists say the discoveries in the ...

A decade after the dairy discovery on strikingly intact remains mummified by the Taklamakan Desert’s arid conditions ... the so-called Tarim Basin mummies and their assortment of cultural ...